The Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) is the most widely distributed of the giant silk moths in North America ... moth is expertly disguised as a dead leaf. If that doesn’t work, flashing ...

Researchers modeled how their spread might play out in North America, considering factors such as temperature, day length and humidity. Since box tree moths have no specialized natural predators ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Over the last two months, anyone surrounded by a lot of trees in the North Country may have ... As caterpillars, spongy moths make their way up trees and feed ...

On the other end of the scale, some giant moths are wider than a human hand. The largest moth native to North America is the cecropia ... splatter left on a leaf, rather than any sort of tasty ...

Residents of six states have been asked to send dead butterflies, moths and other Lepidoptera ... yellow-winged butterfly native to North America. Nowadays, she hardly sees that particular species.

This also applies to Alpine butterflies and moths, which leave Alpine ... northern Asia and North America -- the swamp porst leaf-miner butterfly Lyonetia ledi. By looking at its morphological ...

His latest research shows that butterflies probably first flapped their wings in present-day western North America or Central ... the curator of butterflies and moths at the University of Florida.

Featuring a wingspan of up to 7 inches, the cecropia moth is the largest moth in North America. The moths have red colored bodies with wings that are black, white, red, and sometimes tan.

The team of scientists, led by Akito Kawahara, a curator of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) at the Florida ... once existed between Russia and North America — and reached what is now Russia ...